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By Jann Alexander on June 30, 2014 • ( 23 Comments )

Putting Contrast to Work with Your iPhone

The iPhone 5s makes a fantastic camera, especially when it’s the only one you’ve got, with an assist from Snapseed.

By Jann Alexander on June 29, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Ebb and Flow on the Water

There’s an ebb and flow to life, like day and night, on Maine’s coastal waters.

By Jann Alexander on June 28, 2014 • ( 5 Comments )

A Meaningful Contrast on the Wharf

Contrasts are frequently meaningful; but in the case of lobster traps on a Maine wharf, that depends.

By Jann Alexander on June 27, 2014 • ( 29 Comments )

A Contrast Between Life and Death

Photography excels at capturing contrasts—between dark and light, shadow and bright, death and life.

By Jann Alexander on June 22, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Finding My First Sweet True Love

For me, reading, writing, photography and painting are all intertwined like a tangle of sticky spaghetti.

By Jann Alexander on June 21, 2014 • ( 24 Comments )

What’s Your Creative Personality?

Is your creative personality fed by travel, productivity, fashion, caffeine or . . . what? Here’s what stokes eight different creative types.

By Jann Alexander on June 20, 2014 • ( 26 Comments )

Looking for the Contrasts Between Things

Finding the subtle similarities, and the contrasts, between things is one way to make photographs richer.

By Jann Alexander on June 18, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Lost and Found Along the Highway

A life lost, a photograph found but words, not. Some days are just that: wordless.

By Jann Alexander on June 15, 2014 • ( 3 Comments )

When Serendipity Makes Your Shot an Image

When you expected the unexpected, serendipity can become your photographic assistant.

By Jann Alexander on June 14, 2014 • ( 14 Comments )

Finding That Sweet Lagniappe in Photography

It’s always sweet to find that unexpected reward in your photographs—that unexpected extra detail to make the shot an image.

By Jann Alexander on June 13, 2014 • ( 10 Comments )

Ask Yourself Six Questions to Skyrocket Your Creativity

Curiosity can shift your attitude so that you’re seeing magic in what’s been seemingly mundane, and your creativity will skyrocket.

By Jann Alexander on June 11, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

How Collecting Art Is Also Collecting Stories—Yours

What does a photograph mean to me? To you? Photographs, like all art, elicit our emotions and our reactions, and the connections that we make with them. What touches me […]

By Jann Alexander on June 10, 2014 • ( 8 Comments )

The Naturescapes Shop Is Open for Art Collectors

Whether you’ve already got a serious art habit, or you’re just starting to collect art, take a stroll through my new Naturescapes Shop.

By Jann Alexander on June 9, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Focus Only on What You Are Writing Now

Follow the 11 Commandments of Writing and Daily Creative Routine, according to Henry Miller, in 1932.

By Jann Alexander on June 8, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

Why Cities Are Ideal for Creative Voyeurs

As practitioners of creativity, we’re inspired by our voyeuristic natures. And cities offer much room to look inside for ideas.

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Pairings are quite common in life: wine and cheese, football and beer, man and woman. Some pairings are less obvious. Pairings is a blog about pairing art with everything else at AustinDetails.me, where art meets tech with pictures and words.

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Aim, frame, click. Read, write, repeat. Always looking at the details. Pondering where art meets tech. Find Photography, Writing, Art, Design and Words here about pairing art with what goes with it (everything).

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